From the simple AABB rhyme pattern of Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks” in 1980 to the complex rhyme schemes of rappers like Eminem and Kendrick Lamar, emcees have taken all kinds of approaches to rhyming ...

Charlie 2na’s lyrics in this song along with a lot of other hip hop and rap music are insanely underrated as top notch poetry. If you like poetry and you appreciate great rhyme schemes there is no ...

While some are left underwhelmed after listening to the new J. Cole album KOD, a collection of 12 tracks with little tying them together, J. Cole himself could hardly care. KOD has garnered 400,000 ...

Our favorite lines this week cover a wide spectrum, from tributes to rap heroes to dirty jokes. It was also a good week for up-and-comers, with Busta Rhymes being the only veteran to make the cut.

Hip-hop as a culture has grown to become a powerful force world-wide, with its music, fashion, and slang influencing all facets of life in continents as far as Europe and Asia. Due to the competitive ...

Busta continues his status as king of the cameos by putting his own spin on this M.I.A. hit. He uses this rather unusual (for rap) A-A-B-A rhyme scheme several times in the song, always to great ...